The Weaponized: The Complete LitRPG Series
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Speed increase: +10%
Status: 0/5
The Third Branch of the Passive Ability:
Name: Tracker
Description: Actions performed by your enemies leave markers that you can see. When you look at the marker, the Voice will tell you how long ago they occurred. The markers vanish after some time.
The lifespan of markers: +5 seconds (Current: 0 seconds)
Status: 0/5
Name: Malicious Whispers 1
Description: When you take damage, the spectral Voice begins to whisper into your attacker’s ears, trying to confuse them. The voice has a chance of:
1. ruining your enemy’s aim;
2. persuading your enemy to stop attacking you and choose another target;
3. bamboozling them into attacking their allies instead.
Chance of ruining your enemy’s aim: +20% (Current: 0%)
Chance of having them pick another target: +10% (Current: 0%)
Chance of having them attack their allies: +5% (Current: 0%)
Note: Only one of the effects can be applied to an enemy at a time. The Voice randomly choose one of the three. If it fails and the enemy still attacks you, the Voice will try another one. After being successful, the skill goes on cooldown.
Recharge delay: 60 seconds
Status: 0/5
The Fourth Branch of the Passive Ability:
Name: Malicious Whispers 2
Description: You gain an improved recharge delay for the Malicious Whispers 1 skill.
Recharge delay: -10 seconds (Current: 60 seconds)
Status: 0/3
Required skill: Malicious Whispers 1
The Fifth Branch of the Passive Ability:
Name: Third eye
Description: When you close your eyes, you can see enemies, traps, markers, and whatnot through the walls and structures in front of you.
Distance: +10 meters (Current: 0 meters)
Status: 0/5
So I put the first five skill points into the Malicious Whispers 1 on the Third Branch of the Passive Ability. This skill seemed very useful to me. The next five skill points went into Malicious Whispers 2 on the Fourth Branch of the Passive Ability. This skill improved the recharge delay for the Malicious Whispers 1 skill.
Name: Malicious Whispers 1
Description: When you take damage, the spectral Voice begins to whisper into your attacker’s ears, trying to confuse them. The voice has a chance of:
1. ruining your enemy’s aim;
2. persuading your enemy to stop attacking you and choose another target;
3. bamboozling them into attacking their allies instead.
Your Stats of the skill:
1. Chance of ruining your enemy’s aim: +100% (Completely Learned)
2. Chance of having them pick another target: +50% (Completely Learned)
3. Chance of having them attack their allies: +25% (Completely Learned)
Note: Only one of the effects can be applied to an enemy at a time. The Voice randomly choose one of the three. If it fails and the enemy still attacks you, the Voice tries another one. After being successful, the skill goes on cooldown.
Recharge delay: 30 seconds (Learned skills: Malicious Whispers 2)
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
Name: Malicious Whispers 2
Description: You gain an improved recharge delay for the Malicious Whispers 1 skill.
Recharge delay: 30 seconds
Status: 3/3 (Completely Learned)
Required skill: Malicious Whispers 1
I used the next five skill points to learn and fully upgrade the Third eye skill from the Fifth Branch of the Passive Ability.
Name: Third eye
Description: When you close your eyes, you can see enemies, traps, markers, and whatnot through all walls and structures in front of you.
Distance: 50 meters
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
The Third Eye skill was undoubtedly extremely important. It would surely benefit me a great deal. I could not wait to try it out in combat.
I decided not to learn the Fast Hands skill from The Second Branch of the Passive Ability as well as Tracker from The Third Branch. They did not seem very useful to me. I was not sure about the Tracker, though. Still, I decided not to learn it for the time being.
The Sixth Branch of the Passive Ability was unlocked now. It contained only one skill.
The Sixth Branch of the Passive Ability:
Name: Ubiquitous
Description: When you close your eyes, you can see through walls and visualize the area in front of you, which enables you to Blink through walls and structures.
Status: 0/1
Just like the Third Eye skill, the Ubiquitous skill was extremely useful. It allowed me to blink through walls and other structures, which I could not do before learning this skill.
So the next skill point was used to learn this skill.
Name: Ubiquitous
Description: When you close your eyes, you can see through walls and visualize the area in front of you, which enables you to Blink through walls and structures.
Status: 1/1 (Completely Learned)
I could not wait to try it out in combat as well.
So most of the skills of my Passive Ability were learned now. The only two skills that I had not learned were Fast Hands and Tracker. The formed did not seem all that useful to me. As to the latter, I was not sure about it, so I decided to hold off on this skill for the time being.
After that, I finally switched my attention to my Ultimate Ability. Before that moment, I had not learned a single skill for this ability.
I checked out the two skills on the First Branch.
Red Rune (Ultimate Ability) — Teleport
The First Branch of the Ultimate Ability:
Name: Teleporter
Description: You gain an improved recharge delay for the Ultimate Ability.
Recharge delay: -60 seconds (Current: 10 minutes)
Status: 0/5
Name: Reach Farther
Description: Increases the length of your teleportation tunnel.
Length: +50 metres (Current: 50 meters)
Status: 0/5
So I used the next ten skill points to learn and fully upgrade both these skills to improve the recharge delay for my Ultimate Ability and increase the length of my teleportation tunnel.
Name: Teleporter
Description: You gain an improved recharge delay for the Ultimate Ability.
Recharge delay: 5 minutes
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
Name: Reach Farther
Description: Increases the length of your teleportation tunnel.
Length: 250 meters
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
Since I put ten skill points into the skills of the Ultimate Ability, the Second and the Third Branches were unlocked now. I did not have any more skill points to use at the moment, but out of curiosity, I checked out the skills on the Second and the Third Branches anyway.
The Second Branch of the Ultimate Ability:
Name: Violent Speed
Description: When the Ultimate Ability is active, your movement speed gets higher still.
Speed increase: +20% (Current: 0%)
Status: 0/5
Name: Void Walker
Description: Increases the duration of the Ultimate Ability.
Duration increase: +30 seconds (Current: 30 seconds)
Status: 0/5
Name: Jumper
Description: You can jump higher when the Ultimate Ability is active. Since you are in the void space when the Ultimate Ability is active, you receive no damage in the real world when you land.
Jump increase: +100% (Current: 0%)
Status: 0/5
The Third Branch of the Ultimate Ability:
Name: Regeneration
Descripti
on: Your wounds heal with increased speed when the Ultimate Ability is active.
Healing speed: +10% (Current: 0%)
Status: 0/5
Name: Phaseattack 1
Description: When the Ultimate Ability is active, you can attack enemies out of the void space, but they still cannot attack you.
Status: 0/1
Name: Without a Trace
Description: When the Ultimate Ability is active, you and the trace you leave behind become less visible.
Visibility: -5% (Current: 50%)
Status: 0/5
Some of these skills seemed very useful, especially Phaseattack 1. This skill allowed me to attack enemies after activating my Ultimate Ability to enter the void space while I myself could not be attacked. However, I could not learn this skill yet, because I had no more skill points at the moment.
So my current level was 54. I still had plenty of skills to learn. But I was not worried about that. Since the top level was 100, I would most likely be able to learn most of the skills.
My current stats were as follows.
Stats:
Class: Flanker
Current Level: 54
Experience Points: 159550
Experience Points to Level 31: 165500
Abilities:
Active Ability — Blink
Maximum distance: 30 meters (Learned Skills: Reacher 3/3)
Amount of charges: 3/3 (Learned Skills: Unstoppable 1 2/2)
Delay between charges: 1 second (Learned Skills: Unstoppable 1 2/2, Unstoppable 2 2/2)
Cooldown: 30 seconds (Learned Skills: Ready for Action 3/3)
Passive Ability — Sixth Sense
Effective range: 125 meters around (Learned Skills: The Eagle Eye 5/5)
Cooldown: 1 second (Learned Skills: Guardian Angel 5/5)
Movement Speed increased by: 50% (Learned Skills: Speed Maniac 5/5)
The spectral voice can warn you about: 5 kinds of danger (Learned Skills: Spectral Protector 5/5)
Stats of Malicious Whispers 1:
1. Chance of ruining your enemy’s aim: +100% (Learned skills: Malicious Whispers 1 5/5)
2. Chance of having them pick another target: +50% (Learned skills: Malicious Whispers 1 5/5)
3. Chance of having them attack their allies: +25% (Learned skills: Malicious Whispers 1 5/5)
The recharge delay of the Malicious Whispers 1: 30 seconds (Learned skills: Malicious Whispers 1 5/5, Malicious Whispers 2 3/3)
Your Passive Ability allows you to: see enemies, traps, markers, and so on through walls and structures in front of you as well as blink through them (Learned Skills: Third Eye 5/5, Ubiquitous 1/1)
The distance of Third eye: 50 meters (Learned skills: Third eye 5/5)
Ultimate Ability — Teleport
Maximum length: 250 meters (Learned Skills: Reach Farther 5/5)
Duration: 30 seconds (Learned Skills: No Skills Learned Yet)
Cooldown: 5 minutes (Learned Skills: Teleporter 5/5)
Learned Skills:
Green Rune (Active Ability) — Blink
The First Branch of the Active Ability:
Name: Ready for Action
Description: You gain an improved recharge delay for the Active Ability.
Recharge delay: 30 seconds
Status: 3/3 (Completely Learned)
Name: Unstoppable 1
Description: You gain an additional Blink charge. While the Active Ability can be used several times before going on Cooldown, after you use the Active Ability, you will have to wait some time before you can Blink again.
Recharge delay: 1 second
Status: 2/2 (Completely Learned)
Name: Reacher
Description: Increases the distance of the Active Ability.
Blink Distance: 30 meters
Status: 3/3 (Completely Learned)
The Second Branch of the Active Ability:
Name: Unstoppable 2
Description: You gain an improved recharge delay for the Unstoppable 1 skill.
Recharge delay: 1 second
Status: 2/2 (Completely Learned)
Required skill: Unstoppable 1
Blue Rune (Passive Ability) — Sixth Sense
The First Branch of the Active Ability:
Name: Guardian Angel
Description: You gain an improved recharge delay for the Passive Ability.
Recharge delay: 1 second
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
Name: Speed Maniac
Description: Increases your overall movement speed.
Speed increase: +50%
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
The Second Branch of the Passive Ability:
Name: The Eagle Eye
Description: Increases the range of the Passive Ability.
Distance: 125 meters
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
The Third Branch of the Passive Ability:
Name: Spectral Protector
Description: The spectral voice warns you when you are in danger.
Current: Rank 5
Rank 0: The Voice warns you when danger approaches without specifying what kind of danger it is. (Learned)
Rank 1: The Voice warns you when an enemy is aiming at you and from what direction to expect the attack. It also tells you when a grenade is thrown at you. (Learned)
Rank 2: The voice warns you when a sniper rifle is aiming at you. It works even if the sniper is beyond the range of the Passive Ability.
Rank 3: The voice warns you about nearby traps. (Learned)
Rank 4: The voice warns you if there are many enemies nearby. (Learned)
Rank 5: The voice warns you if many people died near you. (Learned)
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
Name: Malicious Whispers 1
Description: When you take damage, the spectral Voice begins to whisper into your attacker’s ears, trying to confuse them. The voice has a chance of:
1. ruining your enemy’s aim;
2. persuading your enemy to stop attacking you and choose another target;
3. bamboozling them into attacking their allies instead.
Your Stats of the skill:
1. Chance of ruining your enemy’s aim: +100% (Completely Learned)
2. Chance of having them pick another target: +50% (Completely Learned)
3. Chance of having them attack their allies: +25% (Completely Learned)
Note: Only one of the effects can be applied to an enemy at a time. The Voice randomly choose one of the three. If it fails and the enemy still attacks you, the Voice tries another one. After being successful, the skill goes on cooldown.
Recharge delay: 30 seconds (Learned skills: Malicious Whispers 2)
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
The Fourth Branch of the Passive Ability:
Name: Malicious Whispers 2
Description: You gain an improved recharge delay for the Malicious Whispers 1 skill.
Recharge delay: 30 seconds
Status: 3/3 (Completely Learned)
Required skill: Malicious Whispers 1
The Fifth Branch of the Passive Ability:
Name: Third eye
Description: When you close your eyes, you can see enemies, traps, markers, and whatnot through all walls and structures in front of you.
Distance: 50 meters
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
The Sixth Branch of the Passive Ability:
Name: Ubiquitous
Description: When you close your eyes, you can see through walls and visualize the area in front of you, which enables you to Blink through walls and structures.
Status: 1/1 (Completely Learned)
Red Rune (Ultimate Ability) — Teleport
Name: Teleporter
Description: You gain an improved recharge delay for the Ultimate Ability.
Recharge
delay: 5 minutes
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
Name: Reach Farther
Description: Increases the length of your teleportation tunnel.
Length: 250 meters
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
So my current level was 54. Nate’s level was also 54. Since Vlad was a damage dealer, he killed more enemies than the rest of us, so he usually received more experience points. His level was 57.
As to Tamerlan, his level was 50. While he was four levels “younger” than Nate and I were, he had become very experienced by that point. Moreover, as we had learned, a difference in the five levels was not all that huge. So after he leveled up to 50, we decided to pick missions that matched our team’s average level instead of Tamerlan’s as we had done before.
After we completed our last mission, we rested for a few days.
Rested and refreshed, we converged on the Control Panel to study available missions. One of them caught our attention.